Quotes About Fear

Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Some men think because they're afraid to do .

All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me.

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

In life, the monsters win.

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

The night is dark and full of terrors.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.